In most instances if my reflexes were not up to the task I could go the longer route and shoot them to death. After Samus Returns I was a little wary because that game had some required melee counters and I did not like them, but they are also few and far between. You don't even get to use it beyond killing EMMIs as the end of the game which is an absolute missed opportunity. Also, the loop of getting the omega cannon to defeat them and then immediately losing the omega cannon for nonsensical reasons gets trite. It more often than not feels like the developers giving you a giant middle finger for trying to play their game. Eventually you get tools that make it more tolerable, and you feel like you are in the steal section of other games, and it's OK, if a bit annoying, but then later areas are designed to nullify those tools. It's pretty fun and interesting and tense. I need to get away from this murder robot because I am not strong enough to handle them. As for the EMMI sections, where the dread is supposed to come in? At first it's exciting. All of the above would be forgivable if there was a difficulty setting, If I just want to explore and see the story, why the hell do I have to deal with infuriating mechanics or spend literal hours on bosses, dying over and over to iteratively learn complex patterns? Why can I not just tone it down? let me play on easy, have the bosses do less damage, make the melee/quick time event windows longer, give them less health so I don't have to do the same cycles over and over. by the time you even see the flash, the window may have closed. God help you if your TV has any input lag, because some of the REQUIRED quick time events are fraction of a second inputs. Boss fights are hyper-tuned and in most cases require very specific sequences to progress, From the first boss that you MUST use the melee counter to defeat onward, the game emphasizes perfect combat gameplay over any other aspect.
Exploration and discovery then offers minimal reward, so rushed gameplay is encouraged. No matter how many extra energy tanks you have, boss hits will drain multiple. Metroid: Dread, no matter what you do, is the latter. It felt like there were two potential gameplay loops: Explore and power up and make bosses easy or, rush through and have superior gameplay to beat bosses with more limited gear and less health.
I like finding everything, getting all of the items, and then because I have everything, being able to just power through bosses. Do you know why I played previous Metroid games? I love to explore. I see a lot of the praise for this game, and I see what people are saying and they are loving the exact things I hate, and it is extremely discouraging. There has never been a Metroid game that I have not enjoyed enough to at least beat. This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.Īs a fan of the Metroid series since I played the first one as a kid on the NES, I wanted to love this game.
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